Word: graspingly
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...performance. Edward Zambara was as satisfactory looking a villain as one is likely to see, but his clear diction was somewhat spoiled by a thick American accent. It was evident that the pronunciation in general was carefully worked over, but even so the words were difficult to grasp. John Patterson, as the hero Amadis, was the only character who was often less that satisfactory; he was bothered throughout by a lack of acting ability...
...achievement man had ever known, many a citizen had gotten the same feeling about the productive capacity of the U.S. The idea that one nation could successfully jack up the whole Western world, put it on wheels and tow it along, perhaps for decades, was almost too fantastic to grasp. Here was the U.S. with the Korean war to fight, with India to feed, with Europe to supply, arm and encourage, with enormous armed forces to be raised and equipped at home. It was a gigantic project-a productive effort completely without precedent in human affairs...
...head of the New York Curb Exchange (see BUSINESS). Truslow's assignment: to provide expert financial advice and get the Point Four ball rolling in Brazil. Though Miller is sure to hear Brazilian gripes against U.S. price lids on coffee, Getulio Vargas is one statesman shrewd enough to grasp the equality-of-sacrifice idea that the U.S. hopes to get over to its Latin American neighbors...
...This is Mrs. Roosevelt's gracious way of saying," said the World-Telly, "that while 'certain things' may be readily understood by the British and U.N. circles, Congress and the American people are unfortunately a little too dumb to grasp them...
...compromise that will give Fonse the orchard after Jofroi dies, the old man announces that he will commit suicide to put his death on Fonse's conscience. After some 30 suicide attempts, he intimidates Fonse into a sickbed. Though Pagnol's film technique is static, his grasp of character and locale makes for a human film that is, by turns, uproarious and more than a little touching...